I'll be more of a third-party person and try to be factual. =)
Besides what you described with the object and disk storage.
It uses Amazon Dynamo paper on eventually consistent methodology of organizing data.
Gluster has different features so I would look into that as well.
What I have experienced with Lustre is more geared towards SuperComputing and tuning storage to your workload. In terms of scaling Lustre with HA is fairly difficult, not impossible but be careful for what you wish for.
It depends on what you are trying to accomplish as the end result. Not saying Ceph isn't a great option but make smart choices and even test them out. Testing is how I learned about the differences, and that is how we ended up with our choice.
Disclaimer: I run a Ceph cluster, so I am more familiar with it but Gluster was a big contender for us.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 8:12 AM Mark Nelson <mnelson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So despite the performance overhead of replication (or EC + cache
tiering) I think CephFS is still a really good solution going forward.
We still have a lot of testing/tuning to do, but as you said there are
definitely advantages.
I haven't looked closely at either Lustre or Gluster for several years,
so I'd prefer not to comment on the state of either these days. :)
Hope that helps!
Mark
On 08/04/2015 05:38 AM, jupiter wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks for the comments, that was the same arguments people concern
> CephFS performance here. But one thing I like the Ceph is it is
> capable to run everything including replications directly to XFS on
> commodity hardware disks, I am not clear if the Lustre can do it as
> well, or did you allude that the Lustre has to run on top of the RAID
> for replications and fault tolerance?
>
> We are also looking for CephFS and Gluster, apart from the main
> difference that Gluster is based on block storage and CephFS is based
> on object storage, Ceph is cetainly has much better scalibility, any
> insight comments of pros, cons and performance between CephFS and
> Gluster?
>
> Thank you and appreciate it.
>
> - jupiter
>
> On 8/3/15, Mark Nelson <mnelson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 08/03/2015 06:31 AM, jupiter wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to deploy Cephfs in a cluster, but I need to have a performance
>>> report compared with Lustre and Gluster. Could anyone point me documents
>>> / links for performance between CephFS, Gluster and Lustre?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> - j
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't know that anything like this really exists yet to be honest. We
>> wrote a paper with ORNL several years ago looking at Ceph performance on
>> a DDN SFA10K and basically saw that we could hit about 6GB/s with CephFS
>> while Lustre could do closer to 11GB/s. Primarily that was due to the
>> journal on the write side (using local SSDs for journal would have
>> improved things dramatically as the limitation was the IB connections
>> between the SFA10K and the OSD nodes rather than the disks). On the
>> read side we ended up running out of time to figure it out. We could do
>> about 8GB/s with RADOS but CephFS was again limited to about 6GB/s.
>> This was several years ago now so things may have changed.
>>
>> In general you should expect that Lustre will probably be faster for
>> large sequential writes (especially if you use Ceph replication vs RAID6
>> for Lustre) and may be faster for large sequential reads. For small IO
>> I suspect that Ceph may do better, and for metadata I would expect the
>> situation will be mixed with Ceph faster at some things but possibly
>> slower at others since afaik we haven't done a lot of tuning of the MDS
>> yet.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>>
>>>
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